I am surprised at apple's ability of keeping things secret.

how many employees does apple have? how does word not get out about each and every future product. take the macbook air....so many people must have worked on it and how the heck did word not get out also take the new mbp productions, for instance. how many people do you think are involved in the process? they must be highly, highly compartmentalized because i am surprised that leaks do not occur more often.

It's easy to keep secrets if you keep people uninformed. The store owners don't know what's in the boxes they receive, and the underpaid Chinese workers don't particularly care when putting the laptops together. The only folks with the positioning and incentive to know are well-paid and well-motivated to keep mum. Not terribly hard to do.

Everybody has a different personality but if I was helping out with designs or production or anything really, I would enjoy knowing what is coming when nobody else does. Plus, I'm sure they get them first, possibly before release date. Steve might have a new MBP on his desk right now pinch-zooming pictures as we speak. Sometimes you just trust the people you hire.

its kind of hard for a factory line worker to not notice that he/she is putting screws in a .16 inch aluminum enclosure

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What motivation would one have to spill the beans? These are people in low, low, low wage jobs slaving over machines for hours a day. It's basically flipping burgers to them; no meaning whatsoever. If you're making the equivalent of a dollar a day or thereabouts working on a machine you wouldn't be able to afford on a year's salary, what difference would it make to you what it was called, how thin it was, or when it would be released?

What motivation would one have to spill the beans? These are people in low, low, low wage jobs slaving over machines for hours a day. It's basically flipping burgers to them; no meaning whatsoever. If you're making the equivalent of a dollar a day or thereabouts working on a machine you wouldn't be able to afford on a year's salary, what difference would it make to you what it was called, how thin it was, or when it would be released?

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cool point. But it only takes one to spill the beans. plus there can definitely be motivations. appleinsider and 9to5mac come to mind. i bet those sites would pay a big bug to get inside info.

What motivation would one have to spill the beans? These are people in low, low, low wage jobs slaving over machines for hours a day. It's basically flipping burgers to them; no meaning whatsoever. If you're making the equivalent of a dollar a day or thereabouts working on a machine you wouldn't be able to afford on a year's salary, what difference would it make to you what it was called, how thin it was, or when it would be released?

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if there chinese workers then there getting a lot more that $1 a day, the thai workers were i was were getting 7000 baht a month with 70 baht to the £ (2$) they can afford if they say up to get these things as many of them did have nice clothes, mobile phones, nice apartments and motorbikes plenty food, more than one tv and cable. Now we also had a chinese worker i was friends with and he told me the base wages that are pretty common in his area. its about the same as the thai wage for the first years work slowly going up-to twice that for good workers over 5 years.

It's easy to keep secrets if you keep people uninformed. The store owners don't know what's in the boxes they receive, and the underpaid Chinese workers don't particularly care when putting the laptops together. The only folks with the positioning and incentive to know are well-paid and well-motivated to keep mum. Not terribly hard to do.

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Apple probably follows the same philosophy used by the CIA and other members of the intelligence community. You have most people doing work that is fragmented, so they can't see the forest because they are only working on one tree. A few people in the upper echelon can see the forest because they compile all the data gathered by the employees.

It's the old time trick of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.

Apple probably follows the same philosophy used by the CIA and other members of the intelligence community. You have most people doing work that is fragmented, so they can't see the forest because they are only working on one tree. A few people in the upper echelon can see the forest because they compile all the data gathered by the employees.

It's the old time trick of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.

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i believe there was a story a few weeks back that basically said that this is how the iPhone was put together.

Squeeks, would you mind substantiating your claim that there won't be an update until June? Why even bother posting - is it just to piss people off?

One thing we do know is that Apple has been consistent with, if nothing else, updating the Macbook Pro line with current processors. So IF NOTHING ELSE the MBP will see a bump to Penryn on Santa Rosa prior to Montevina in May/June. It's either that, or 4 more months of having MB and MBP with no processor differential - an entirely unsustainable scenario.

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